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Building boom keeps architects and builders busy locally
The period shows extensive remodeling and new construction across Oakville and nearby streets. Projects include barns converted to homes on Cooke and Bishop streets, two family and four unit houses on Waterville and Revere streets, a brick factory on Railroad Hill, and a four story commercial block on North Main Street. Plans credit C Jerome Bailey and Freney & Jackson. houses feature frame construction, tar and gravel roofs, furnace heat, gas and electric lights. Building Inspector Chatfield issued 15 permits totaling about 142,700 dollars.
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PF. Farrell
Cooke Street
Nto
The
Hitchcock Hardware Co
Oakville
George Ouellette
Eastwood Avenue
Richard Worsell
New England Engineering Co
Elmer B. Paine
Crescent Street
Griggs & Hunt
C. A. Ketchen
Waterville Street
Isidore Shapiro
Bishop Street
Frank Bryan
C. Jerome Bailey
M. A. Dulac
Shugrue
Harry T. Green
Woodside Avenue
Charles B. Beardsley
George S. Chatfield Co
Mason
Bunker Hill Road
P. H. Carroll
W. Foster Wright
Revere Street
James Callegaris
J. F. Bittner
P. J. Dunigan
Watertown
L. H. Toucey Co
Freney & Jackson
Chatfield & Chatfield
Railroad Hill Street
F. H. Kalbfleisch Co
Tracy Bros Company
George S. Chatfield Company
Ben
South Main Street
Harry Willetts
W. T. Disley Company
T. J. Brennan
West Grove Street
Martha McMahon
M. F. O'Hara
North Main Street
William Reither
Barlow Bros Co
John F. White
Eastern Bridge & Structural Co
Worcester
Eastern
Terra Cotta Brick & Tile Co
Boston
W. Ippolito
East Clay Street
C. B. Beardsley
F. H. Hayden
Pine Street
W. F. Wright
J . J. F. Farrell
Y. Senzerl
Reinhold Fossell
Blake & Johnson Manufacturing &Co
Waterville
P. H. Kalbfleisch Co
Railroad Hills Street
Chatfeld